I dunno if you watch any anime, but if you do, you’d be doing me a big favor if you watched The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, where the postmodern “science fiction isn’t real but I wish it was” narrator’s personal Truth Event occurs when he gets involved with the manic-depressive title character, and wrote something about it.

The production company’s follow-up show, Lucky Star, is the really postmodern one, but it’s tedious to watch if you don’t love anime because it is nothing but references to other shows and cultural ephemera.

I don’t watch that much anime (anymore) either, but Haruhi is really well done. Though maybe you’d be annoyed with the way philosophical concepts are sometimes presented in a simplified form so that they can be played for laughs (Talking Cat: “Listen, just because the sounds that are coming out of my mouth sound like human speech doesn’t mean I’m actually speaking to you. It could just be random gibberish, you know?” Narrator: “But the fact that you answered my question proves that you understand what I’m saying.” Talking Cat: “But that could be a coincidence. There’s no way for you to prove that we’re actually having a conversation.” Smiley-Faced Inscrutable Character: “That’s true, people can say things they don’t mean.” Narrator: “-_-” <– the punchline).